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Weekend Linkfest:14 Feb,2014

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Instagram is shaping up to be the world’s most powerful selling tool (Forbes)

Housing.Com:Born out of its Founder’s House Hunt (ForbesIndia)

Anything you can do,Icahn can do better (Economist)

150 Years ago,Sochi was the site of horrific ethnic cleansing (Smithsonian)

Parsis face a burning  question (Open)

The Code has been Modified (Outlook)

Does Christie’s Auction reflect market reality (Caravan)

Slide Show:Valentine Day’s Cartoons (NewYorker)

Queen orders Kate Middleton to cover her knees (NYMag)

The first lesson of Marriage 101 (Atlantic)

Warren Buffett is laughing at you for selling (MarketWatch)

Spoof:Arvind Kejriwal demands Jan LovePal Bill (UnrealTimes)

Saudi Arabia:The last of the Sudeiri Seven (ProjectSyndicate)

Travelogue:Rann of Kutch (Ghumakkar)

Movie Review:Heartless (VigilIdiot)

Dearth of a good 15 Lakh SUV (TeamBHP)

Why are so many Indian farmers killing themselves (ModernFarmer)

You can explain eBay’s 50 Billion $ turnaround with this crazy story (BI)

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Linkfest:Feb 14,2014

Wish all readers a Happy Valentine’s Day.

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Meet Turakhia brothers (ET)

Tax disputes with foreign companies blotting India’s copybook (Mint)

The state bank story (BS)

Vada-pav inflation is going through the roof (FirstBiz)

Cashless Mediclaim:A second person narrative (Freefincal)

8.8% IREDA Tax free bonds (MyInvestmentIdeas)

Investments eligibile for 80C Deductions (Subramoney)

The chart that wouldn’t die (TRB)

Two behaviors that hurt stock investors (RickFerri)

The world’s hottest luxury property market is Jakarta (Climateer)

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Linkfest:Feb 13, 2014

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

HDFC Bank may be dropped from MSCI Indices (ET)

Shareholders cold shoulder proxy firms’ red flags (FE)

What IPL team owners did not learn from previous auctions (Mint)

NSEL Scam:Squaring with a preferred few (BS)

Real Estate Returns Calculator (FreeFinCal)

Railway Budget 2014-15 Highlights (SimpleTaxIndia)

How I multiplied my income 2.5x after quitting my job (SafalNiveshak)

Investing Successfully is really hard (RPSeaWright)

Why India’s emerging market is in trouble (CNN)

Adriana Ferreyr hits George Soros (DealBreaker)

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Linkfest:Feb 12,2014

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

UPA is leaving behind a full blown banking crisis (FirstBiz)

Small,mid-size banks stare at capital adequacy trouble (FE)

SEBI out to screw brokers again (ET)

Dhan Chakra:The life cycle of your money box (Mint)

Govt,Vodafone tax negotiations break down (BL)

Raghuram Rajan:Life has been full of pleasant surprises (BS)

Bill Ackman,Carl Icahn give up (Dealbreaker)

Yellen to Emerging Markets:Drop Dead (TRB)

CNN-IBN:A history of abuse (MediaCrooks)

When to ignore the investment experts (Bloomberg)

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Linkfest:Feb 11,2014

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

A PSU bank top job goes for 40 Crores & Liquor Barons get away with murder (FirstBiZ)

The great milk robbery (BL)

How Rahul Gupta built a multi-crore company in less than 3 years (ET)

In Narendra Modi,Big Money backs the Wrong Man (Mint)

Tata Sons charts new growth path (BS)

Dummies guide to becoming a stock expert guide on Twitter (Prashant)

Best pension plans in India-How to choose them (BasuNivesh)

Bad is stronger than good (Pragcap)

John Templeton:The Last Yankee (CrossingWallStreet)

Does trend chasing explain the financial markets? (NoahOpinion)